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By the Forge's standards, no. We have been in contact with Ron Edwards who has been wonderful to us regarding Driftwood and the Forge. We will be setting out our own forums at http://www.theriddleofsteel.net but there will be a forwarding link to take you there from the Forge. Also, the entire archives will be saved. But we are not going anywhere yet!

We will still be at the Indie Game Booth at Gen Con this year. Of course at this late stage it would be impossible to get TFoB completed by that time, but we are should have official TRoS T-shirts available for purchase at the booth and on the website.

As George (Claymore) said, they made the offer shortly after I announced my long upcoming hiatus. I get offers to buy TROS pretty often, but I liked what these guys had to say, and the timing was perfect. While I would have to lie to say that handing over my baby wasn't a little hard, in the days leading up to it (and especially since), I've actually found myself happier and happier with the decision. This is currently the best move I could have made for the game. And I'm really looking forward to having more TROS books on my shelf--something I simply wasn't going to be able to do with any regularity at the rate we've been going.

For those of you that are worried that this means I'm retiring from the game world...it doesn't. I will continue to consult for TROS (I did about 2 hours of that this morning, in fact) and even write on future supplements and other TROS-related projects. I will also open a new "Jacob Norwood" indie company for all of the other projects I've been dying to get out over the last few years but haven't been able to due to the amount of time and effort that a game like TROS demands (look for Grit, Thirst, La Famiglia, Gods of War, etc, to be in development or completion about this time next year). This way you guys get the best of both worlds, I think. I'm certainly happy as can be about the arrangement. So I will see you at Gen Con next year (so long as I'm not getting shot at in Iraq...).

Jake

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"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." -R.E. Howard The Tower of the Elephant___________________www.theriddleofsteel.NET

Geez, take several months off the message boards, and look what I miss!

BTW: TFOB is actually in print, isnt it? Because I generally buy from other sources, such as Amazon.com, rather than FLGS (Because my LGS arent that F), and usually get a good discount; but I can't find TFOB offered for purchase anywhere except on theriddleofsteel.net.

They're pretty much alive and well there, and you can expect a timely response to your question there. For my own experience tho', I picked up TFoB at my FLGS. However, my FLGS has been historically friendly to small press and indie games.